Literacy Narrative Response

  My response is on the literacy narrative I read for homework. The literacy narrative I read was Mother Tongue.  The main topic of this literacy narrative was about how knowing the proper English language effected a child's life. The child was Amy Tan. She explained throughout the story that how the English  language effected her relation with her mother, her relationship with others, etc. Amy Tan also uses examples from her life to explain these situations. She includes some particular examples where she would have to speak for her mother in business interview over the phone because her mom's English wasn't as precise as hers. She explained how her mother not being fluent in English limited her. It limited her vocabulary and exposure.
 
  Amy Tan also describes how at home she would speak English the way they did, as she described "broken" English, and when she was away from home she would speak sophisticated, precise English. She even described how her family spoke English. She stated that they spoke English without articles, such as the or a. She changed her vocabulary and English depending on her surroundings. All the events Amy Tan describes leads back to event where she finally spoke proper English in front of her mother.